, 1887-10-13
HASTY VISITS.
The Presidential Party Hurry
ing Along.
Brief Stops Made at Sioux
City and Omaha.
Narrow Escape From an Acct
dent in Kansas City.
Enroute for Omaha.

eNenlDR. 1ue Two lauleS Oh the party re-
tired early, but the president and the male
members of his escort sat for a couple of
hours smoking their cigars and comparing
experiences. The president was fire.
quently summoned to the platform during
the evening to receive the greetings OF
the country people, who seemed to be
wide awake all along the line. At Cheska
a dozen tar barrels were burning, an ar.
tillery salute was fired, and as the train
moved past a big fire balloon in national
colors was sent aloft. At Carver the
people were out in force with a brass
band, and the place was illuminated by
Chinese lanterns.
At LeSueur there was a more elaborate
Illumination and serenade. The train
made no stops, but the president appeared
where there was a crowda and courteously aC-
k~nowledged its salutes. An army of rail
road men was on patrol duIv on the track
and huge bonhres were burning every hall
mile on the way. The sun was just
streaking the eastern sky with ribbons of
scarlet and pink when all hands were
called this morning to prepare for the
affair at Sioux City, A brief half hour
was allowed for toilets, and coffee was
served before the place was reached.
The train was stopped outside the town
limits to take on board Mayor Clelland,
who, without tormality, welcomed the
president and friends, and when the sta
ton was reached, Just at sunrise, carriages
and the reception committee were found
in waiting, as were the military. the brass
band and the people. A rapid drive of
five minutes brought the visitors to the
corn palace, whose turrets were at that
moment taking an early bath of golden
sun.
The corr festival ended, in fact, last
week, but everything had been kept in
place for the presidents visit, and all at
tendance was on hand to do the honors of
the occasion. The courteous committee
men escorted each member of the party
and pointed u the curiositIes, and a
more entertaining array Of novelties has
not met the gaze of the president since
his trip began. Mrs. Cleveland was de-
lighted with everything she saw, and
turned again and again to examine more
closely some unique fabrication of corn
stalks, husks, ears or kernels to which her
escort called her attention.
The val maiden With her hair OF corn
silk aud robe OF satin husks eli mbing a
winding stair of golden ears, the spider
of tiny carrots lying in wait in the web of
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of kernels, each state having its separate
color. the huge national flags and shields,
eagles, crescents. crosses and emblems of
the various nations, the notices, from
dominant ceres imperatrice'' to the
multitudinous and varied welcomes all
made of the unshelled ears, were noted
and admired in turn, and then the big
marvel of a building, whose sole material
except its bare skeleton, was the product
of the cornteld, was explained in detail,
and the conception, history and construc-
ton described by the party's conductors,
and admired by the guests.
From the palace the visitors were con-
Quoted through the town, which seemed
to be constructed in great part of corn
products. A mammoth triumphal arch.
still spanned the chief t%horoughfare, and
signs of sections of corn ears and avn
ings, verandas and in some cases entire
fronts of corn trapped out with sqashes
end pumpkins were as their architects
had planned and made them. The show
furnished the chief subject of converse
ton during the iOrenoon's ride to Omaha,
where new scenes and new novelties
claimed attention. The ride down the
Missouri valley from Sioux City through
endless stretches of waving corn showed
the significance of the Sioux City exhibi-
ton. At Council Bluffs Senator Man
d~erson, Congressman McShane and a
committee of gentlemen from Omaha,
boarded the train and welcomed the
President to Gods country which
they claimed lay Just beyond the river.
In the station at Omaha Senator Pad
dock, Congressman Dorsey and the re-
naming members Of the reception com
mittee, composed of prominent residents
and municipal authorities, welcomed the
clty's guests.
The carriage to which the president and
his wife was escorted was one mass of
roses, wreaths of which also bedcckcd tie
horses. A multitude of many thousands
cheered the party as it made its appear
ance and cheers and salutes were its ac-
compartments throughout the city. The
streets had been hastily but richly
adorned with, streamers and devices in
gay c%olors, and banners bearing "wel
c,mes to the president - cou,h,d in every
form of patriotic or poetic phrase,
spanned the way. The ID regiment Of
United States infantry. Knights of Pyth-
las in uniform from all parts Of the state.
and several political and social organiza
tons were drawn up in line along the
street sides, each with its brass band and
colors. Que of the organizations, which
attracted the especial attention Of the
president. was a company of full bloodcd
Indian youths from the Genoa Industrial
school with an Indian band of music.
Governor Thayer and Congressman
McShane rode with the president and
Mrs. Cleveland and pointed out, as mere
subordinate incidents of the ride, the cor